Senior Interaction / Visual Designer

Overview

Our financial client is looking for a Senior Interaction/Visual Designer. As a member of a highly collaborative senior design team, the incumbent will play a critical role in redefining the future of the Rewards experiences through leveraging their product design and systems thinking expertise. This role will mainly focus on our merchandising and personalization experiences on a platform level – spanning both our web and mobile channels. The incumbent and will be comfortable within a collaborative interdisciplinary team and agile ways of working.

* This is a hybrid role in Toronto (3 days onsite, 2 remote)

Top Skills

• Experience working in the loyalty space
• Experience working with product managers, BA’s, project managers, developers and QE (as part of a larger organization)
• Experience creating user journeys, wireframes, and information architecture
• Experience with facilitating or supporting user research, with an understanding of various research methods and how/when they are applied

Requirements

• At least 5 years of product design experience, or at least 7 years in a combination of Interaction Design and Visual design roles
• Experience designing within the the retail / ecommerce space (Native Mobile App as well as responsive web)
• Demonstrated expertise with design, prototyping, and collaboration tools such as Figma, Mural, and design systems
• Demonstrated ability to articulate design strategy, and the rationale and logic behind design decisions
• Lean UX and working with Agile dev teams
• Usability research experience
• Great communication and facilitation skills

Responsibilities

• Be the consistent day-to-day product designer dedicated to a squad that includes a content designer and researcher who are shared across multiple squads. As such, they will be responsible for communicating and managing the day-to-day design needs of the squad (with support and leadership from their Design Lead), and will be a key partner to the Product Owner
• Responsible for the interaction and visual design deliverables of the team, from early-stage concepting all the way to delivering final ready-for-dev design files 
• Be accountable for following accessible design requirements and visual brand guidelines, and for ensuring that designs leverage our design system
• Collaborate with the Marketing team to ensure visual design consistency across
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners: product managers, project managers, business analysts, developers and quality assurance teams.
• Participation in Agile ceremonies 
• A strategic interaction designer with a strong understanding of user interface patterns and behaviours, and knows how to balance those imperatives with business requirements and marketing considerations.
• A strong systems thinker – how to strategically design and implement by considering different functional areas of our business, our channels in and outside of Avion Rewards and other moving parts within our ecosystem.
• A strong communicator and presenter, and a natural leader who can facilitate ideation sessions, provide expert advice and guidance to cross-functional teams and stakeholders , and ignites design conversation by inviting and responding to feedback
• A self-starter with solid time management and project managements skills, who is comfortable providing informal project management for the squad
• Familiarity with accessible design requirements
• Familiarity with using and contributing to a Design System

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